Teaching Phillis Wheatley in Light of Freddie Gray
Noelle Trent wrote a great post about how to locate “the reality of students’ lives in the themes and trends
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Why Race Riots Happen in US Cities
Recent images from Baltimore of citizens clashing with police, police in riot gear, and burning buildings appear similar to other
Read moreBlack Women March on Washington: The Sojourners for Truth and Justice and Black Women’s Lives Matter
Before the 1963 March on Washington a group of African American women stormed the gates of the capital demanding that
Read moreThe Politics of the Parental Leave, pt. 1
Recently my thoughts have been drawn to the politics of black parenting and academia. What thus follows is the first
Read more“Ten Million Black People . . . are Watching:” Reactions to the Outset of the U.S. Occupation
This is the fourth entry in a series on the centennial of the U.S. occupation of Haiti. The previous post
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